Specialization: Race and sexuality in American film, media studies, trauma theory and visual culture, women’s literature, multicultural media and literature, contemporary American literature, ethnic studies, and women’s studies.
Specialization: Creative Writing
Specialization: Fiction writing, technical writing, alchemy and literature, American minority literature, especially Asian-American literature.
Dr. Burns has a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston, and a B.A. in English and an M.A. in fiction writing from the University of Florida.
Specialization: Creative Writing. Dr Candito is an award-winning poet.
Specialization: Rhetoric/Composition, Writing Pedagogy, Rhetorical Theory and Literary Criticism, Grammar, 18th Century studies.
Dr. Ciesielski works closely with first-year composition, writing and language related courses, and the literary and rhetorical theory behind them. His research interests lie in rhetorical analysis, philosophy, and theories in the teaching of composition. His book, Between Philosophy and Rhetoric: Aesthetics and Meaning in the Postmodern Composition Classroom, works toward an understanding of dialogue and social interaction as the basis for responsible communication. Because, as Dr. C insists, “we write to learn,” he sees the importance of the critical thinking and mature perspective that writing and rhetoric offer as the focal point of a solid education, no matter what a student chooses as a major. “Hey, I’m an across-the-curriculum kinda guy!” he says. “If we don't have a healthy dialogue, we don’t have anything.” It’s this kind of educational and social philosophy that makes Dr. Ciesielski’s classroom a forum for learning through language and for helping students achieve their goals. Dr. Ciesielski earned his Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. His other specialties include Literary Theory, 18th Century Studies, and Romantic literature. He makes his home in La Crosse, Wisconsin with his wife Dr. Virginia Crank and their fearless companion and erstwhile editor, Beanie the cat.
Specializations:Freshman Composition.
Mrs. Cool taught freshman composition courses at UW-Stevens Point from 1995-1999 and has continued teaching composition courses at UW-Platteville since 1999. While director of the UW-Platteville Campus Writing Center from 1999-2003, she developed a special interest in composition-related service learning programs, partnering university composition students with local writing projects, which she continues to do with her freshman composition courses.
Specialization: John Keats, William Hazlitt, feminist theory, and composition.
Dr. Dalles received a BA in English from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, an MA in English Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Ph.D. in British Romanticism from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Specialization: Old and Middle English literature and language, especially Beowulf, Arthurian works, Chaucer, troubadour lyrics, the world epic; history of the English language, women's language and writing; composition theory and practice.
Dr. Drummond received her B.A. in English from Auburn University, her M.Ed. in Counseling from Georgia State University, her M.A. in English from West Georgia College, and her Ph.D. in English from the University of Southern Mississippi. Her dissertation is entitled "Cynewulf's Elene: A Line-by-Line Philological and Literary Critical Synthesis and Commentary."
Specialization: Fresman Composition.
Specialization: Rhetoric/Composition; Old French, Anglo-Norman, Old English, and Middle English language and literature.
Specialization: American Literature, Film Studies, and Composition.
Specialization: Renaissance literature, especially Shakespeare; Drama, especially Renaissance Drama and Modern Drama; literary theory; technical, scientific, and business communication; composition, including composition theory; and film.
Specialization: English education, gay studies, young adult literature, the teaching of composition, modern British and American literature, Filipino literature.
Specialization: Teaching English as a second or foreign language, language policy, world Englishes, sociolinguistics, bilingual education, English in China.
Specialization: Freshman Composition.
Mr. Kronick stresses writing as a process (English 113) and logical argumentation (English 123). His students work in peer groups, as he believes that students "should learn from each other as well as from me."
Specialization: nineteenth-century American literature (especially fiction), cultural studies, feminist theory, theory of ideology and literature, ethnic studies, transnational studies, and contemporary popular culture.
Specialization: Composition, English Linguistics, ESL, Science Fiction.
Mrs. Perkins has an MA in Applied English Linguistics from UW-Madison and a BA in English (Creative writing and linguistics) from Purdue. She came to Platteville in 2003. Although Mrs. Perkins primarily teaches freshman composition, she also worked with foreign exchange students from Japan, teaching them English, composition, reading, and American culture. In addition to her professional interests, Mrs. Perkins enjoys reading science fiction and constructed languages, and often incorporates themes from topics into her classroom.
Specialization: Composition.
Mr. Shepherd, MFA Creative Writing, has taught college since 1975. Eighteen short stories by Mr. Shepherd have been published in journals worldwide and currently a novella, "The Last Chord Concert," reviewed previously in "Publishers Weekly," is being serialized in India's "Taj Mahal Review." He has also published a collection of short stories, "The Distance to Venus."
Shepherd is also a critically acclaimed singer-songwriter whose music appears regularly along with Toby Keith, Taylor Swift, and Brad Paisley on Top Ten Music Charts in the US and Europe. He is a voting member of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2007, 2008, and 2010 his music appeared on the Grammy Nomination Ballot in six categories, including Song of the Year. In the United States his first three albums "Einstein's Hair," "Heartbreak Standard Time," and "Love Heals All Things" have remained on the US Top 100 Pop Country and True Country Charts for over 118 weeks, driven by the Top Ten Hit singles "Lazy Hazy," "Six Pack Syndrome," and "Ten Tall Women." A single release, "Road Cowboy" from his fourth album, "Daylight On The Rise," peaked at #3 on the charts in France. Shepherd's fifth album, "Escape Is Not A Place," was released in August 2010.
Specialization: American Literature, British Romanticism, and modernism.
Dr. Stipe holds a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature. Her scholarly interests are in the gothic. She is also a fiction writer. "I am passionate about literature and teaching, and care deeply about my students."
Specialization: Women’s literature; ethnic studies, especially Native American; folklore.
Specialization: Modern and contemporary British and Irish literature and culture, colonial and postcolonial literature (esp. Africa), transnational and globalization studies, women’s writing.
Dr. Tucker comes to Platteville from the University of Miami, where she earned her PhD and taught British and World Literature surveys as well as a special topics writing course on contemporary Nigerian literature. While in Miami, she also taught at Miami-Dade College and worked as an editor for the James Joyce Literary Supplement. Professor Tucker enjoys teaching British, Irish, and Anglophone literature and hopes to offer a course in postcolonial literature at UWP in the near future. Her current research project examines how twentieth-century Irish writers represent national identity in light of the burgeoning concept of global consciousness.
Specializations: Scientific and technical writing/professional writing, nineteenth-century British Literature, literary theory (especially narrative theory).
A native of Wisconsin, Dr. Wein earned a bachelors of science degree in English with an emphasis in Scientific and Technical Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, where he began as a physics major and worked for five years as a planetarium lecturer and an observatory operator. He earned his masters in English from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. At Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana), Dr. Wein was the recipient of the 71 Annual Literary Award in Literary Theory and Criticism and the Excellence in Teaching Award. At UWP he teaches professional writing courses, literature courses, and the introduction to literary thoery and criticism course. Dr. Wein is also the Humanities Internship Director and the Humanities Liaison for the MSE program in China, and has spent the last four summers teaching technical writing in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. Dr. Wein is the recipient of several awards, including the 2009-2010 Wisconsin Teaching Fellow.
Specialization: Nineteenth and early 20th century American literature; ethnic and minority American literatures; literature by women; feminist theories; feminist literary criticism, popular literary genres, such as science fiction; literature and social change; historical perspectives on literature; American studies perspectives.
A Wausau native, Dr. Wendorff majored in English and history at the UW-Madison. She took a year off from school to work, then was accepted into the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in 1992. Her current project focuses on race and class in the construction of women's poetic voice in late-nineteenth-century America. The thing she likes best about being at UW-Platteville is the students!